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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2022
Semes Co., Ltd., Cheonan-si, KR;
Won Young Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Keun Woo Kim, Cheonan-si, KR;
Tae Uk Park, Ulsan, KR;
Hyuk Jae Sung, Cheonan-si, KR;
Semes Co., Ltd., Chungcheongnam-do, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is an article transfer apparatus. The article transfer apparatus includes a vehicle that travels along a driving rail installed on a ceiling, a hoist module that picks up an article-to-be-transferred, a vehicle body, on which the hoist module is mounted and which is connected to the vehicle, a drop preventing member provided in the vehicle body, and that prevents the article-to-be-transferred from dropping while the vehicle travels, and a controller that receives loading/unloading information of the article-to-be transferred to determine a size of the article-to-be-transferred, and to drive the drop preventing member according to a size of the article-to-be transferred.